Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-01-08
THE LABOR MOVEMENT.

The LABOR MOVEMENT.
STRIKES THAT RESULTED FOR GOOD
OR FOR Ill.
The Demand for Eight Hours.The Big
Strike in Chicago and the Anarchist
Bomb 'Throwers.Big Packing House
strikes.strest Railway Tie Ups.
JANUARY.
e. Great strike and lockout of the engi.
neers Of the elevated railroad system Of New
York city. Travel was almost entirely sus.
pended for q day or two.
q. A riot occurred at Mount Pleasant. Pa.
The police and the Hungarian strikers had q
collision, in which several of both parties
were injured.
q. Six thousand glovemakers Of Johns
town and Gloversville, N. Y, struck for
higher wages. The strike was not Of very
long duration.
FEBRUARY.
9. The employees of the New York, Seventh
avenue, Fourth avenue. Sixth avenue and
Broadway surface roads strike successfully
for a reduction Of hours.
MARCH.
8. Brooklyn street car lines all atied up"
s. General tie up Of the street railroads
Of New York city. It required $50 police.
men to force a car through Grand street,
where o great crowd had assembled.
9. Five hundred men, Knights Of Labor,
employed in the Missouri Pacific railroad
shops at St Louis, quit work at the blowing
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ployes who were also Knights also struck.
The freight business Of the road Is paralysed:
2. Secret meeting held at St Louis. at
which the passenger engineers, brakemen,
switchmen and hremen Of the Mi souri, Pa
cidc system decided to Join the freight han
dlers' and carshop strike. Accordingly none
Of them reported for work, and 600 miles
Of road idle. Immense freight blockade.
O. Employees Of the Troy and Lansingburg
street railroad at Troy, N. Y, struck for
fewer hours of work. Demands granted.
9. Five thousand employees Of the "Gould"
railroad system were discharged on the Mis-
souri, Pacific.
10. Vice-President H. NJ. Hoxie, Of the
Missouri Pacific railroad, declines to confer
with the Knights of Labor or q COMMITTEES
from the strikers.
u. Hoxie hos a conference with Governors
Marmaduke and Martin ut st. Louis.
u. Jay Gould accepted a proposal for ar
bitration. Mr.. Powderly orders the men to
work. s
%. The district assemblies Z. Of L. refuse
to obey POwderly's order, and instruct the
Missouri Pacific strikers not to resume work.
81. Martin Irons issues a general order To
tho knights to resume work on the Missouri
Pacific.
81. Six hundred and fifty morocco workers
of Wilmington quit work.
81. Strike of Cohoes spinners ended. About
1000 persons affected
l. The strike on the Gould roads has been
resumed on account Of the refusal of the com.
pany to reinstate all the strikers.
8. "Bloody Saturday" at Fort Worth,
Texas. Strikers resist the movement oi
trains, firing a volley of Winchester rifles into
aposse of deputy sheritfs, killing one and
MORALLY wounding two Others. The officers
replied with revolvers killing one striker.
s. Mr.. Powderly formally recalls his order
to the Missouri Pacific strikers to resume
work.
O.. Deputy sheriifs In East st. Louis fri
into a crowd, killing seven persons, only ons
Of whom was a striker.
II. Powderly makes an appeal to Gould foI
the settlement Of the southwestern strike.
Gould replies, justifying his action and 70.
fusing to grant the request Of tho Knights for
arbitration.
IL. A general te up ordered on the New
York City Third Avenue Street railway.
16. Martin Irons, the leader in the great
southwestern strike is. with three others. in.
dicted by the grand grand jury at St Louis,
for tampertng with telegraph wires.
Is. Widow Landgraff boycotted in New
York city for employing non-union bakerz
10. The Third avenue street car strikers
New York city, wreck a car and have q
short but savage fight with the police.
10. The great tie up Of the New York city
street railroads is of, with the exception Of
the Third avenue line.
70. Trains are running without molestation
Q the Gould roads, although the striker,
still profess to be confident Of ultimate sue.
cess.
%. The house committee at Washington
begins its investigation Of the strike on the
Gould roads. 1t was continued for some
time.
IS. ugar house employees at Williamsburg,
N. T., on strike for an increase of wages.
26. Thirty-nve members Of the New York
Tailors' union indicted by the grand jury Tor
boycotting. D
q. The striking operatives Of the Missouri
Car company have resumed work. The Bal.
Gmore street car strike has also como to an
end.
81. The Third avenue street car strikers,
New York city, put on free coaches for the
accommodation of persons who would other
wise be compelled to ride in the cars.
80. Chairman O'Donnell, Secretary Best
and Graham, Hughes and Downing, of the
Empire Protective association, indicted BY
the grand jury at New York for ordering thu
tie up Of the Third avenu cars.
NAY.
l. Chicago trades unions demand q uniform
working day of eight hours, without reduc
tion of wages. Tue same demands arc made
in many other cities.
l. Forty thousand men in Chicago 20 on
strike for eight hours. Strikes for similar
cause ore general all over tho country.
4. An attempt by the Chicago police to dis
perse a meeting Of Anarchists was followed
by Q riot in which q dynamite bomb was
thrown by the Anarchists among the police,
killing six and w~ounding sixty.one.
& Rioters fired upon and several killed by
the state militia at Milwaukee, Wis.
s. More shooting occurred at Chicago be.
tween tho police and Anarchists, md leading
rioters wero arrested.
g. Milwaukee rioters indicted.
9. The ~pianomakers Of New York have
abandoned their demand for q reduction tc
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